Travels and researches in Chaldæa and Susiana; with an account of excavations at Warka, the "Erech" of Nimrod, and Shúsh, "Shushan the Palace" of Esther, in 1849-52 (1857) (14763726025)

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Title: Travels and researches in Chaldæa and Susiana; with an account of excavations at Warka, the "Erech" of Nimrod, and Shúsh, "Shushan the Palace" of Esther, in 1849-52 ..

Year: 1857 (1850s)

Authors: Loftus, William Kennett

Subjects: Babylonia -- Antiquities Khuzistan (Iran) -- Antiquities

Publisher: London : J. Nisbet and Co.

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Susa. Itis equally apparent that the Eulseus, afterwards men- * AiTian, Indica, 42. t Arrian, Exped. Alex.» vii. 7. X Sir Henry Rawlinson remarks on this river, that it was named by theold Persians Dijldhi K6ddk, or the Little Tigris,-and this was translatedinto Arabic by Dijlah, D6jeil. With this indication, then, he had no diffi-culty in recognising in the Greek ^aa\ the old Persian word Pas sigmfpnglow inferior, and in thus translating Pasitigris, like the Arabic Dujeil,«theinferior or little Dijlah. See « Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, voljx., p. 90. Other authors adopt the more simple derivation, Pasitigris, as ifPersi Tigris. 428 VIEW OF SUSA ON AN ASSYRIAN BAS-RELIEF. tioned, could be no other than the Kdriin, the same whichNearchus ascended to Susia (the territory of Susa), andthe same which Ptolemy mentions, after the Mosseus, asthe chief river of Susiana. But a farther convincing proof that the Kerkhah bifur-cated in ancient times, and that its eastern arm, connecting

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